Check out the Christian Science Monitor’s travel feature on a Saturday crime tour exploring Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles and “full of mystery-loving, novel-toting, passage-quoting noir junkies.” The idea: a rolling homage to both the author and the city he loved, then hated, and immortalized in his writings.
Daniel B. Wood’s story includes comments from David Kipen, the NEA’s director of literature, who suggests that Chandler may have more readers today than Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner and has “probably turned more readers into writers than Faulkner ever did.”
“Chandler is an evangelist for the transformative power of literature,” says Kipen, “…just the prose itself will get under your skin and not leave you alone.”
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